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How businesses use internet (P2)

Thann Sanctuary Spa VS The Face Shop

Introduction

Thann Sanctuary is a fully licensed unisex spa company that offers wide range of treatment such as facial, massage, body and hands and feet treatments. They are also selling their own skincare product for unisex which is Harnn & Thann skincare. Thann Sanctuary Spa has voted as the Top 55 Best Spa and the only spa that has won award in Brunei.

The Face Shop is is a beauty destination offering a wide range of affordable high quality products. The Face Shop blends science and nature to meet all your beauty needs and enhance every woman’s natural beauty. Made with the finest active plants, The Face Shop makes enhancing and protecting beauty like second nature.

 

How do Thann Sanctuary Spa use internet?

•  Advertising

Most spas rely on advertising using internet such as social media to build a loyal customer base. It allows user to share pictures and videos publicly or privately. Using social media for business purposes in the right way could have an instant viral marketing.

• Communication

Thann Sanctuary Spa also use internet to communicate such as using social media(Facebook) to communicate with their customers and using emails to communicate with the staff or employees.

How The Face Shop use internet?

1.       Giving information

The Face Shop use internet such as Website to give information about their company, their products and their services. This intend to make the customer easily access and to know about the price of the products and the services offered.

2.       Marketing

Social media marketing is a form of internet marketing that involves creating and sharing content on social media networks in order to achieve your marketing and branding goals. Great marketing on social media can bring remarkable success to your business. The Face Shop used social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube to market their products.

The uses of internet for different types of business activities

• ·        Online shopping

Online shopping is convenient and usually saves you a lot of money then buying directly at the store itself. People often use shopping website such as Amazon, Aliexpress, Ebay and many more.

• ·        Mobile apps

Some businesses such as Zalora and FashionValet provide mobile apps for their customers. It saves a lot of time and easy to access. There are discount codes valid only for customers that use mobile app to shop and to purchase, it requires internet.

How internet operate (P1)

What is The Internet and how does it operate?

Internet is computer network that connects together globally providing variety of information, in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet.

Internet is a global network of computers and each computer that are connected to the Internet must have a unique address that is known as IP address. They are in the form nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn where nnn must be a number from 0 – 255. For example, when you want to send email, each stack layer that the message passes through may break the message up into smaller chunks of data known as packets. These packets travel through a cable called a router then the router send the packets along to their destination. When there is no congestion, the packets move to their destination place without difficulty and delay. When there are too many packets moving through a junction, random packets drop and caused delay for few seconds for it to arrives.

What is World Wide Web

World Wide Web is an information system on the internet that uses the HTTP protocol enabling the user to search any information by moving one document to the other. It also utilizes The Web also utilizes applications called browsers that make it easy to access the World Wide Web browsers such as Opera Mini, Internet Explorer, Fire Fox to web documents that are linked to each other via hyperlinks. There are more than 1,275,000,000 Websites.

Types of connection

• ·         Wireless

 Wireless or Wi-Fi uses radio frequency to connect to the internet instead of using telephone lines and cables. Speeds will vary, and the range is between 5 Mbps to 20 Mbps.

• ·         Cellular

Cellular technology provides internet access to mobile phone and the speeds also vary depending on the provider such as 3G and 4G speeds. 3G speeds are only around 2.0 Mbps while 4G is around 21 Mbps currently.

• ·         Satellite

Satellite connection has a slower speed than a broadband however, it is stable. It provides an uninterrupted connection but due to its very far distance from the users, it transmits data slower than normal.